Sword Art Online Girls Ops Manga Review

Girls Ops Review

Lizbeth, Silica, and Leafa

Sword Art Online Girls Ops only includes Silica, Lizbeth, and Leafa as familiar faces. You catch glimpses of Kirito and Asuna as the three talk about the past. Of course the manga ends abruptly with little satisfaction. A continuation is much needed, but resolved the initial story plot.

Girls Ops Plot

Ring of Angel’s Whisper Quest

Like I stated earlier, Girls Ops follows Silica, Lizbeth, and Leafa on a quest for “Ring of Angels Whisper.” The rings hold a special ability and a memory of SAO to Lizbeth and Silica. Leafa follows along for the quest. The two latter keep spoiling the quest for Leafa since they completed it in SAO. Theey come across someone who looks just like SAO Kirito. The player is Kuru, who admired Kirito and an SAO survivor. Soon it is discovered the player is female, but got a rare avatar that looked like Kirito. She lost someone in SAO while they were attempting to protect her, so she solo’s in ALO.

Silica attempts to get Kuru to join them, but she denies and leaves to finish the quest. The three follow her to the boss fight and attempt to help her. Silica jumps in front of a blow meant for Kuru. Kuru breaks down and remembers the bad SAO memory and is convinced the game is real. The three attempt to save her and defeat the boss at the same time. It is here that the story abruptly ends.

Characters of Girls Ops

Kuru, Leafa, Silica, Lizbeth

Silica, Lizbeth, and Leafa really need no introduction if you have seen the anime. Silica a young teen that once survived SAO with the help of Kirito. She is monster tamer and has a pet dragon named Pina. Her ideals are a bit up beat and child like, keeping her innocence. Lizbeth was once saved by Kirito as well in SAO. She was his personal blacksmith after that. She braves virtual reality once again in ALO. Leafa is newest to the crew. She was not involved in the SAO incident except through Kirito (her cousin). The three share a similar interest; Kirito.

Kuru is the newest addition to the characters. She is a survivor of SAO and has her own way of ‘dual blades.’ She uses the left to parry while using attack skills from SAO on the right. She is a Spriggan like Kirito in ALO. She has similar swords and a similar outfit to Kirito’s SAO avatar. She holds Kirito high for defeating the death game.

Girls Ops Ring of Angels Whisper

Angel NPC

This item is a familiar to Lizbeth and Silica. Its origins is Sword Art Online. The description reads “Grants Eternal Bonds Between The Companions Who Exchanges Them.” Silica received one from Kirito during the SAO incident. His only intentions were to keep track of Silica and used it like a phone. To acquire the rings one must go through te Demonic Beast at the Abandoned Tower. Apparently it is a bunny like monster, but the new ALO version has stepped the game up a bit.

When, and if, this manga continues, it will be great. The manga story and feeling was much like Reki Kawahara. The writer knew how to get in touch with Kawahara’s story telling. Recreating a new story and keeping the tone is very hard sometimes. This manga is not one to miss out one, even if it is not finished.
Sword Art Online Girls Ops Grade: 8 out of 10